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Chuck & Buck 10-3 Hour 1: Playoff weekend is almost here! ABCs of the Mariners and No cliche keys to victory. · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 3: get underway on a Friday. Welcome into the show. And
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Speaker 3: my goodness, we're gonna have playoff baseball played tomorrow and
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Speaker 3: we now know our opponent. It will be the Detroit
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Speaker 3: Tigers that we will stare in the eye. We'll stare
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Speaker 3: right into the eye of the Tiger. Rocky Balboa. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: and we will back you down. Don't sing their song?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Rocky. So who's fired up for some playoff baseball?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: I cannot wait. I can't wait, and playing the Tigers
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Speaker 4: to bring it, Bring it, Tigers. We were the ones
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Speaker 4: that sent you on that little spiral. You remember that.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we.
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Speaker 5: Did do that.
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Speaker 2: I said it.
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Speaker 5: I didn't I didn't really know who I wanted us
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Speaker 5: to play. I don't care who we play. I'm just
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Speaker 5: ready to watch us play les go.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: All right, well it is here, and you needed those
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Speaker 3: last few components for it to feel as real as
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Speaker 3: it can be, and that is you gotta have an opponent,
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Speaker 3: you gotta have a time you're gonna play, and we
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Speaker 3: now know all of that. It will be the Detroit
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Speaker 3: Tigers flying into town to take on the Mariners starting tomorrow,
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Speaker 3: and we will have the late games in both days,
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Speaker 3: Saturday and Sunday, So five thirty starts on both days
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Speaker 3: that are coming up, Saturday and Sunday. That yes, first
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Speaker 3: pitch we five thirty eight technically tomorrow, and then on
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Speaker 3: Sunday at five three, So five thirty and five o'clock
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Speaker 3: starts the next couple of days we'll have the primetime
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Speaker 3: slot out here in the.
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Speaker 2: West, and so it is on. It is really on.
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Speaker 3: And yeah, I didn't really mind who we played one
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Speaker 3: way or the other. I think we do have the
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Speaker 3: advantage against either of the teams that would have come
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Speaker 3: out of this series, the Tigers or the Cleveland Guardians.
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Speaker 3: They both bring different challenges to the table. I think
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Speaker 3: the Guardians would have been a little easier of a matchup.
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Speaker 3: And yes, I know the Guardian finished strong, but now
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Speaker 3: the Tigers kind of feel renewed after their collapse in September.
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Speaker 3: You know, you get a series win, and I'm sure
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Speaker 3: that they think that they're bad baseball for the year
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Speaker 3: is behind them.
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Speaker 4: And then of.
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Speaker 3: Course there's the big element when you face Detroit. They've
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Speaker 3: got truly one of those horses, one of those aces,
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Speaker 3: one of those horses aces in Tarrek Scooble, who I
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Speaker 3: don't know when they're gonna pitch him. We still haven't
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Speaker 3: announced that, but I'm sure we'll see him twice if
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Speaker 3: the series goes to five games. And he is a
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Speaker 3: guy that can just make life impossible for you. We've
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Speaker 3: beaten him head to head twice this year with Luis
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Speaker 3: Castill going against him, and nobody else has done that
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Speaker 3: this year. But nonetheless, that is an element that I
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Speaker 3: frankly don't think that we have, and it's an element
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Speaker 3: that I don't think the Guardians had either, and it
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Speaker 3: could play a big factor if he's starting forty percent
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Speaker 3: of the games for the Tigers.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, he's the guy. It doesn't matter what
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Speaker 4: you did, you know, back in April and another time
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Speaker 4: in the middle of the season, it's he's gonna come
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Speaker 4: out there kind of feeling like, yeah, you had your
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Speaker 4: two you know, you landed your two lucky punches, and
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna go back to doing what I do because
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Speaker 4: he is he is a guy that's just filthy. I mean,
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Speaker 4: it's it's that change up that he has is ridiculous
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Speaker 4: and then obviously has plus everything else right along with it.
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Speaker 4: But I mean it is I think that there's in
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Speaker 4: this time, you're like, you know, it's a new game,
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Speaker 4: nothing from the past really you get to carry over,
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Speaker 4: and yet it's in the back of everybody's mind as well,
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Speaker 4: and so you get it an opportunity to go up
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Speaker 4: against one of the best, and it's a measuring stick
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Speaker 4: and you're just trying to kind of water that seed
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Speaker 4: of doubt that that is lurking back there. It's not
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Speaker 4: a very big seed of doubt with that guy. I
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Speaker 4: think that he kind of feels that he's gonna go
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Speaker 4: out there and shove it, regardless of what he did
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Speaker 4: last game or what he did last time he faced you.
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Speaker 4: And and yet on the flip side of it, as
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Speaker 4: a hitter, you're gonna have to go out there and
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Speaker 4: just absolutely battle. It's one of those of you can
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Speaker 4: battle and find a way to scrape two run across
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Speaker 4: in in five innings and get into the bullpen, then
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Speaker 4: you've done your job if you can. If it's you
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Speaker 4: let them go seven and and shut you out or
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Speaker 4: only give up one, then it's going to be a
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Speaker 4: tough sledding and then you're pitching staff as the back YEP.
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Speaker 3: A very interesting decision that even the Tigers have to make.
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Speaker 3: I mean, obviously they're going to try to pitch schoolball twice,
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Speaker 3: but do you pitch him in game number one, that
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Speaker 3: all important game number one to get the series started
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Speaker 3: the right way. If so, you're going to ask him
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Speaker 3: to do it on just three days rest. He just
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Speaker 3: pitched on Tuesday, It's one of the advantages of getting
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Speaker 3: a bye. It's one of the things that Major League
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Speaker 3: Baseball tried to build into their new format play their
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Speaker 3: new playoff format. They were a little tired of the
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Speaker 3: teams that had earned their best teams during the regular
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Speaker 3: season that they earned the high the lower seed or
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Speaker 3: higher seed, depending on how you look at it, and
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Speaker 3: they wanted to give them some distinct advantages, and this
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Speaker 3: is one of them. You can throw your ace, you
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Speaker 3: can hold them out for the start of the wild
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Speaker 3: hard round, But if he's going to then start the
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Speaker 3: divisional round, he'll be doing it on three days rest.
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Speaker 3: He's also coming off a game in which he pitched
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Speaker 3: more than he's accustomed to pitching. And you know how
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Speaker 3: these guys are with their routines.
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Speaker 2: So I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I know, Detroit, we'll get him out there at the
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Speaker 3: latest game, number two. But if they don't go with
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Speaker 3: Trek Scuball, then they're starting the series. They either go
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Speaker 3: with their ace on three days rest, or they're starting
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Speaker 3: the series against presumably our best guy with their number
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Speaker 3: four starter, because they certainly aren't going to go to
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Speaker 3: the number two guy Maes or their number three guy
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Speaker 3: Flaherty because they're on even shorter rest going into this series.
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Speaker 3: So it'll be interesting to see how the Tigers play that.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I mean the idea of yeah, that's how
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Speaker 4: it starts with him, and then you kind of have
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Speaker 4: to do the same thing if you were like, Wow,
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Speaker 4: we really don't want to go out there and put
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Speaker 4: ourselves at a distinct disadvantage even I mean disadvantage of
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Speaker 4: a game that starts zero zero, but a disadvantage on
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Speaker 4: paper of starting our fourth best guy against somebody's that's
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Speaker 4: gonna be able to line up their one, two, three
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Speaker 4: sayings wo. Probably, but you're if you don't, if you
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Speaker 4: decide no, we're gonna go out there. We're just ask
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Speaker 4: you guys to come back on short rest. It's all
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Speaker 4: of them. You would be asking to do that. Probably,
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Speaker 4: Otherwise you would unless you win the first one. You
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Speaker 4: throw him out there because he's your horse. You win
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Speaker 4: the first one, and then you say, okay, we'll just
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Speaker 4: go ahead and throw in game two. We'll throw that
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Speaker 4: fourth starter in there and and then get everybody back
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Speaker 4: on track. But I'm fine with whatever they end up doing.
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Speaker 4: I mean, it is he he pitched well in his
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Speaker 4: one start and got the w for for Detroit in
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Speaker 4: that one start, and then they rode that essentially and
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Speaker 4: to win that three game series. To me, it's if
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Speaker 4: you're if you're a pitcher, you're you're if you're Logan
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Speaker 4: Gilbert or Kirby or Castilla, whoever it is. It's thinking
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Speaker 4: right now that they might get the number one, you're like,
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Speaker 4: all right, let's do this. You know, I guarantee our
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Speaker 4: pitching staff likes the idea of getting into a pitcher's duel.
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Speaker 4: And then I if you go our best against their best,
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Speaker 4: I think that it's still as much as he might
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Speaker 4: be a half a tier ahead of any of the
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Speaker 4: guys we got. I still think our offense is significantly
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Speaker 4: better than their.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think on paper we are absolutely the better
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Speaker 3: baseball team. I mean, short series, anything can happen. Hell,
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Speaker 3: if they would have just said, hey, just randomly, we're
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Speaker 3: gonna draw a team out of the hat that didn't
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Speaker 3: qualify for the playoffs and you get into the postseason, Congratulations,
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Speaker 3: Colorado Rockies, You're in. It's our lotto team. It's Rob
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Speaker 3: Manford's new idea. So that nobody feels that they are
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Speaker 3: completely eliminated before the playoffs. You can lose to the
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Speaker 3: Rockies in a five game series, certainly could lose to
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Speaker 3: them in a three game series, and I have a feeling,
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Speaker 3: I mean, if we're not advancing past this round, in
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Speaker 3: my opinion, it's you know, that's one of those baseball things,
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Speaker 3: because I do believe that we're better than them in
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Speaker 3: every category. Our bullpens pitching better than THEIRS. I think
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Speaker 3: our defense is better than THEIRS. I think our lineup
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Speaker 3: is better and deeper than THEIRS. I think our starting
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Speaker 3: rotation is deeper than THEIRS. But the two things that
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Speaker 3: they have going for them is they've got this, you know,
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Speaker 3: Cy Young probably gonna go back to back Cy Young
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Speaker 3: Award winner, who's probably who's going to get two starts
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Speaker 3: in this series. And they've got a few guys that
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Speaker 3: have some confidence against the Mariners. Kerry Carpenter has owned
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Speaker 3: us as a hitter. And then just the crazy unknown
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Speaker 3: of baseball. I mean, the ball bounces certain ways and
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Speaker 3: you never know where it's going to bounce. So but
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Speaker 3: on paper, yeah, I think that we're the better team
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Speaker 3: and should handle the Detroit Tigers here over the next
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Speaker 3: few days.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, the the idea I mean you can.
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Speaker 4: I'm glad the game isn't played on paper. It would
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Speaker 4: be really boring if it was like, all right, you
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Speaker 4: put yours out there and we'll measure our stats. Well,
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Speaker 4: we win that guy, we win this guy, because that's
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Speaker 4: just not the way it works. I Mean, these are
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Speaker 4: Detroit for a large part of the season was playing
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Speaker 4: the best baseball of anybody in the American League. So
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Speaker 4: to think that this that what we witnessed over the
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Speaker 4: collapse over the last month of the season, that that's
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Speaker 4: who they are, that's just not true. Now, to think
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Speaker 4: that they're not capable of that would be false. And
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Speaker 4: yet to think that they're not capable of going out
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Speaker 4: there and beating anybody on any given night, you better
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Speaker 4: recognize that's the truth as well. I just think it
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Speaker 4: comes down to, I mean, both the teams are going
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Speaker 4: to come in confident there. You're right, the three game
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Speaker 4: win in a in a playoff series against the team
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Speaker 4: that overtook them and sniper the division from them. They're
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Speaker 4: riding high flying in here today. And so that's fine,
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Speaker 4: feel good about yourselves. I don't want you coming in
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Speaker 4: here limping or you know, sucking your thumb. So to speak.
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Speaker 3: I want you coming in your feeling like you coming
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Speaker 3: in here sucking you do Yeah, I don't think that.
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Speaker 3: I think their reactions will be slower.
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Speaker 5: If you feel your thumb in your mouth while you're
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Speaker 5: trying to hit, imagine that.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that would be You're right, I guess you know
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Speaker 4: what going approach.
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Speaker 2: In his mouth while he's trying to pitch. That's also good.
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Speaker 3: In between pitches, he's just out there sucking his thumb.
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Speaker 2: Relations Yeah, that's true. Yeah, that's true. To screw up
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Speaker 2: that clock.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I just want to Yeah, I wouldn't be good.
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Speaker 4: I wouldn't be good at all. But I mean I
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Speaker 4: want them coming in here feeling good about themselves, and
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Speaker 4: I then I want us to kind of reverse that
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Speaker 4: feeling for him. And I'm sure that that's what their
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Speaker 4: thought is too. Oh, these guys, look where they're at
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Speaker 4: and look what they ended up doing down the stretch.
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Speaker 4: They're trying to reverse that fate and and it's our
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Speaker 4: job to not let them do it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I just think you if you go with that, if scoobles,
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Speaker 5: you're their guy tomorrow and you go with your same
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Speaker 5: game plan that you went with last the last two times.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's the goal, right. I understand it
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Speaker 2: is very hard to.
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Speaker 5: Assume that that you could beat him three times or
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Speaker 5: four times, but.
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Speaker 2: I just they can't be afraid of him.
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Speaker 5: They can't know, and I don't think they have been
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Speaker 5: in the other two times they've I mean in the
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Speaker 5: first series they were they'd lost the first two games
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Speaker 5: and then it was like they were trying to avoid
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Speaker 5: a sweep with going against Schooble and that didn't That
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Speaker 5: wasn't faring well heading into it, thinking oh gosh, we're
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Speaker 5: facing the best picture and they they won three two
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Speaker 5: or something like that.
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Speaker 3: Where is old Seattle U buddies that can take him
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Speaker 3: out and get him drunk?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, go celebrate that.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, I actually know the guy that I don't
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Speaker 4: know if he was playing there with him.
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Speaker 2: Had to ask her yeah, or.
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Speaker 4: If he was coaching at that he's probably just coaching.
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Speaker 4: He's closer to my age, not as old as I am,
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Speaker 4: but I think maybe eight Cribby if you're listening, Yeah,
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Speaker 4: let's get this guy out.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, go show him around the town again. Remind him
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Speaker 3: of all the good times. Yeah, remember when you used
12:36
Speaker 3: to shotgun beersk shows, how you can do it.
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Speaker 4: You can't do that anymore.
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Speaker 2: Hey, look at this hose. You want a beer bunk.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a great idea.
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Speaker 3: You got a great hose, scoobl check out this hose. Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Does that not bring back memories? Show us how you
12:52
Speaker 3: used to do it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm down with that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Bring him out to the riverside. We'll have a campfire,
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Speaker 4: and then it'll get him lost in the woods. Seattle.
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Speaker 3: You you retire his number when he's in town, that
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Speaker 3: be cause for celebration. Yes, and it'll roll over into
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Speaker 3: the wee hours of the morning and he'll forget all
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Speaker 3: about having to pitch a game against the Mariners in
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Speaker 3: the playoffs idea.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: So anyway, I'm tired of coming up with all these
13:15
Speaker 3: ideas for you, Seattle. You you're crushing it there, trying
13:18
Speaker 3: to figure out a way that you can contribute more
13:19
Speaker 3: to the community other than educating people still a higher level.
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Speaker 2: You know bad acts old you need it.
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Speaker 5: You need to ask yourself every day, what are we
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Speaker 5: doing for Mariners?
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 4: Right right?
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Speaker 3: What are we doing to help Seattle? What a weekend
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Speaker 3: it's going to be, My goodness, what a weekend of
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Speaker 3: sports and I'm sure I'm a prisoner of the moment.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure in my ten years here there's been a
13:44
Speaker 3: crazy weekend like this, but certainly not involving the Mariners.
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Speaker 3: But to have Saturday and think and kind of thank goodness,
13:55
Speaker 3: it's a road game, but you're gonna have the Huskies
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Speaker 3: at twelve thirty, and then you know, pregame starts at
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Speaker 3: eight thirty for goodness sake, so I mean Softy's day, geez,
14:06
Speaker 3: so he'll he'll be getting up at the crack of dawn,
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Speaker 3: you know, pregaming for four hours out at Tom's watch bar.
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Speaker 3: And then after that it's you know, as soon as
14:16
Speaker 3: those college football games last seven hours usually, so it'll
14:21
Speaker 3: it'll bleed in, I'm sure to the Mariners. Mariners at
14:24
Speaker 3: five thirty, and then you got Sounders starting.
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Speaker 2: As Portland at seven thirty.
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Speaker 3: So that's all on, yeah, against their rival, you know,
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Speaker 3: a few remaining games in the regular I think it's
14:37
Speaker 3: our last game? Is it their last game of the
14:39
Speaker 3: regular scene?
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Speaker 2: I hate I couldn't answer that question, hate.
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Speaker 3: Painting myself on that corner because I don't know anything
14:43
Speaker 3: about soccer. But nonetheless, you got that on Saturday, and
14:47
Speaker 3: then Sunday. You know, you're waking up to NFL football.
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Speaker 3: You got the Seahawks playing at one and then the
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Speaker 3: Mariners at five. I mean, maybe there's been a busy
14:57
Speaker 3: and most of the activity is going to be within
14:59
Speaker 3: the same block. Yeah, so maybe there's been a weekend
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Speaker 3: like this. I'm sure there is, but certainly not involving
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Speaker 3: the Mariners. Not since I've been here.
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Speaker 4: No, well, no I don't. I can't remember one in
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Speaker 4: the you know, twenty five years that I've been living here,
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Speaker 4: I can't remember one. I know there hasn't been one
15:16
Speaker 4: that's been involved in the Marrigors. We can obviously think
15:19
Speaker 4: back just to the couple of times that we've had
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Speaker 4: the playoffs in my in basically in my lifetime, so
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Speaker 4: I know that there hasn't been anything involved in them.
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Speaker 4: But I think this city is is turned on right
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Speaker 4: now for for Mariners baseball and obviously the way in
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Speaker 4: which we're going to get to watch this bad boy
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Speaker 4: where it's we got it set up. I mean, there
15:38
Speaker 4: really is no excuses. Go out there, do what you're
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Speaker 4: capable of doing and see where see where this thing
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Speaker 4: ends up.
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Speaker 3: All right, well, we get it underway here on a
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Speaker 3: Tito's handmade vodka Football Baseball Friday right here on Chuck
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Speaker 3: and Buck. So let's find out what we've got on
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Speaker 3: tap for the rest of the show.
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Speaker 4: What's on Tip? What's on? All? Right?
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Speaker 3: So Tigers win six to three over the Guardians yesterday.
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Speaker 3: They take the series two games to one. We'll talk
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Speaker 3: more about the Tigers coming up. We'll have a Tiger's
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Speaker 3: preview for you on the show today. Kyle Peterson, Bucky's
16:13
Speaker 3: friend from back in the day. He's the face of
16:15
Speaker 3: the College World Series. But ESPN brings him out of
16:19
Speaker 3: the closet to call radio games for Major League Baseball
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Speaker 3: as well, and he just so happened to be calling
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Speaker 3: the Tigers Guardian Series for them. And so we're gonna
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Speaker 3: have a Kyle on today, see what he saw, provide
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Speaker 3: us a scouting report on the Detroit Tigers. We'll do
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Speaker 3: that at eight thirty. Also Ryan Healy, who was on
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Speaker 3: with us a couple of weeks ago, former Mariner, he's
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Speaker 3: kind of creeping his way into the broadcast world, and
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Speaker 3: so we're gonna test him out a time or two
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Speaker 3: throughout the playoffs, and so he'll get it started with
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Speaker 3: us today at nine to thirty, so Ryan Healey to
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Speaker 3: join us to preview the Tigers Mariner series as well.
16:58
Speaker 3: The Yankees won over the Boston Red Sox last night,
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Speaker 3: ford to nothing, so the Yankees advance. They'll take on
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Speaker 3: the Blue Chase at one o'clock tomorrow, and Cam Schlittler
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Speaker 3: became an instant Yankee legend in a divisional or see
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Speaker 3: me a wild card game three, you know, winner takes
17:16
Speaker 3: Winter advances kind of series against their great rival. Here's
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Speaker 3: a rookie with just a handful of starts and a
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Speaker 3: really weird name against the ball and goes eight shutout
17:29
Speaker 3: innings at Yankee Stadium for Aaron Boone with twelve strikeouts.
17:34
Speaker 3: He was just about perfect on the mound last night.
17:38
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's that was a game that I
17:40
Speaker 4: think a lot of people were looking forward to. I
17:42
Speaker 4: was somehow hoping that both of them could lose, and
17:46
Speaker 4: yet if I had to pick, it would have been
17:48
Speaker 4: the Red Sox advancing, just because I hate them less
17:52
Speaker 4: than I hate the Yankees. But Schlittler went out there,
17:54
Speaker 4: and I mean that he's obviously didn't have a lot
17:57
Speaker 4: of experiencing right just basically getting called up this year.
18:01
Speaker 4: But he's got plus stuff. We saw the plus stuff
18:03
Speaker 4: when he came and pitched against us, and yet to
18:05
Speaker 4: do it in the playoffs, in a in a you know,
18:08
Speaker 4: decisive game against your biggest rival, to go out there
18:12
Speaker 4: and do it in front of your home fans, and
18:13
Speaker 4: it wasn't just like, oh, you did six innings and
18:16
Speaker 4: scattered six hits, and you know it was shoving it
18:19
Speaker 4: on him. I mean, one after another, sawing off bats
18:22
Speaker 4: left and right. I'm sure that he slept with a
18:24
Speaker 4: big smile on his face last night.
18:26
Speaker 5: I was just glad that they I don't have to
18:28
Speaker 5: cheer for the Yankees or have any reason not cheer.
18:30
Speaker 2: I don't have to want them to win anymore.
18:33
Speaker 5: I wanted them to win so that we could win
18:35
Speaker 5: clinch a playoff spot when we were at the game
18:37
Speaker 5: on that Tuesday, and I wanted them to win last
18:40
Speaker 5: night to give us the late game, right, and I'm done.
18:43
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's it.
18:43
Speaker 2: That's it. That's all I can give you if you
18:45
Speaker 2: lose every game.
18:46
Speaker 4: The New York.
18:48
Speaker 3: Uh and Yankee fans, with their reputation of like, uh,
18:52
Speaker 3: you know, making their players even bigger, I mean it's
18:54
Speaker 3: they've got the greatest history in baseball, maybe in all
18:58
Speaker 3: of American sports. And yet they will take a guy
19:02
Speaker 3: that went, you know, five for seven in a doubleheader
19:04
Speaker 3: and try to retire his number.
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Speaker 2: That's what they're known for.
19:08
Speaker 3: So Cam Schlitzler probably by the time that they get
19:12
Speaker 3: back from Toronto for Game three in the Divisional Round,
19:14
Speaker 3: will probably have a statue up outside Yankee Stadium. We
19:19
Speaker 3: shall see Cubs three one winners over the Padres yesterday.
19:22
Speaker 3: So the Cubs will now face Milwaukee. That's a great
19:25
Speaker 3: rivalry there. And so they'll start the four games tomorrow
19:29
Speaker 3: at eleven am and then the Dodgers and Phillies will
19:33
Speaker 3: play at three thirty. So that's the schedule. The Divisional
19:36
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Speaker 3: the forty nine Ers somehow pulled it off. They entered
20:36
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Speaker 3: to win, and damn if they didn't win it twenty
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20:44
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Speaker 2: Mac Jones looks like it looked like he was dying
20:55
Speaker 2: by the end of that game.
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Speaker 3: He really did.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, between his pants were down.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then at one point I think that his
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21:13
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21:16
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21:21
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Speaker 3: The Honks will be doing their pregame show and then
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Speaker 3: for Ferguson, as in Caleb Ferguson, who I think is
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Speaker 3: I mean, we've got a lot of good Bucky relievers
24:12
Speaker 3: on our team. Who splits are good against left handers.
24:16
Speaker 3: Andre's munos is excellent against the lefties. I think Matt
24:20
Speaker 3: Brash is a little better against righty's, but I did
24:23
Speaker 3: watch him screw Jose Ramirez into the ground about seven
24:26
Speaker 3: times in his career. But I mean, we've got good
24:29
Speaker 3: righty split matchups, but we really haven't had that luxury
24:35
Speaker 3: of guys who specialty is to get left handers out.
24:39
Speaker 3: We haven't had a lot of them over the last
24:40
Speaker 3: few years who are effective in that role. We all,
24:43
Speaker 3: i think, feel pretty comfortable about Gabe Speier. I don't
24:46
Speaker 3: think people feel all that comfortable about Caleb Ferguson, but
24:50
Speaker 3: I'm here to argue that you should. He is a
24:53
Speaker 3: guy that produces soft contact. He's not like a dominant reliever,
24:58
Speaker 3: he actually is. I think he's go up like two
25:00
Speaker 3: extra base sits since he's joined the Mariners. He's given
25:04
Speaker 3: up more hits than he was giving up with the
25:07
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh Pirates because he's just the ball was landing, it
25:11
Speaker 3: was finding grass, it was finding the hole. But he
25:14
Speaker 3: is sort of the master of soft contact, and so
25:18
Speaker 3: he's still been effective against lefties. He never gives up
25:21
Speaker 3: big damage, but he has given up a few strings
25:24
Speaker 3: of walks and bass hits and needs to be clean
25:27
Speaker 3: cleaned up. There's no question about it. But I think
25:30
Speaker 3: he ends up playing a really massive role in this series.
25:33
Speaker 3: The Detroit Tigers have Riley Green and Kerry Carpenter. Carpenter's
25:38
Speaker 3: killed us, Riley Green's killed almost everybody until recently. But
25:42
Speaker 3: the Guardians went as far as forcing Green out of
25:45
Speaker 3: some games in the series. I mean, he got pinch
25:48
Speaker 3: hit for when a lefty specialist came in to the
25:51
Speaker 3: game in Game number two, they took him out of
25:54
Speaker 3: the game. Their best hitter, their all star hitter, Riley
25:56
Speaker 3: Green thirty six homers during the regular season, one hundred
25:59
Speaker 3: and eleven runs knocked, and yet he's been struggling so
26:02
Speaker 3: much against lefties that they took him out of the
26:05
Speaker 3: lineup and game number two when a lefty came in
26:08
Speaker 3: to face him. If you could do that with dual lefties,
26:11
Speaker 3: now you can get Caleb Ferguson maybe in a tight
26:14
Speaker 3: spot in the fifth inning, and you can get Riley
26:16
Speaker 3: Green out of the game. That could be a real big.
26:19
Speaker 4: Factor in this series. Yeah, yeah, if they even if they,
26:22
Speaker 4: I mean, I think that was a mistake by hints
26:24
Speaker 4: to take him out of the game. I get that
26:26
Speaker 4: his blitz against lefties are substantially worse, but boyl boy,
26:30
Speaker 4: I mean, you're you're in a game where wouldn't you
26:32
Speaker 4: want to give him a shot at it? And then
26:34
Speaker 4: if you happen to come back and tie that game
26:37
Speaker 4: up and that his spot in the lineup comes around again,
26:40
Speaker 4: you're going to be kicking yourself that he wasn't in there.
26:42
Speaker 4: So who knows if he'll make that same decision again
26:45
Speaker 4: because it didn't necessarily work out depending on how much
26:49
Speaker 4: it is an analytics thing. If it's fully analytics, then
26:52
Speaker 4: you're like, yep, we're going to do it every single time.
26:54
Speaker 4: That's what the numbers tell us. If he goes with
26:56
Speaker 4: his gut and he's like, well, that didn't work out.
26:58
Speaker 4: I did take out an All star are just because
27:01
Speaker 4: of the hand that the guy was pitching with.
27:04
Speaker 5: Uh.
27:04
Speaker 4: But either way, whether they take him out or here,
27:07
Speaker 4: you're bringing in somebody that he has more trouble against
27:10
Speaker 4: than he does against righties. I'm one hundred percent on
27:13
Speaker 4: board with you. I think the cave Ferguson and Gage
27:15
Speaker 4: Spy are both going to be integral because that we
27:18
Speaker 4: don't have many lefties, right, That's it, And so you're
27:21
Speaker 4: going to have to do something to go against him
27:23
Speaker 4: and Kerry Carpenter for sure. Yeah.
27:24
Speaker 3: We usually just like keep like one lefty and then
27:26
Speaker 3: you play that you can only play at one time. Well,
27:29
Speaker 3: now we're going to have an opportunity to play that
27:30
Speaker 3: card a couple of times when the right guys are
27:33
Speaker 3: coming up to the plate and the splits on both
27:36
Speaker 3: he and Carpenter are significant. I mean, Carpenter has two
27:40
Speaker 3: seventeen batting average, two thirty eight on base against left handers.
27:44
Speaker 3: Green has a two eighteen batting average. This is for
27:47
Speaker 3: the season, a two ninety on base So they are
27:51
Speaker 3: they are, you know, susceptible to failing against lefties. And
27:56
Speaker 3: now we have more than one guy we can call
27:59
Speaker 3: out of the bullpen. So I think Ferguson's going to
28:01
Speaker 3: play a role.
28:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope.
28:02
Speaker 3: So finally g G is for Gilbert or George. According
28:08
Speaker 3: to Ryan Divish from the newspaper in town. You know
28:12
Speaker 3: there's a newspaper in town that covers the day, covers
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Speaker 3: sports and news and stuff.
28:16
Speaker 2: Familiar.
28:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, that maybe the decision is not Gilbert or Castillo,
28:22
Speaker 3: but Gilbert or George to start Game one of the
28:26
Speaker 3: Divisional round of the playoffs, and he was leaning toward
28:30
Speaker 3: them being the top two starters that are going to go.
28:34
Speaker 3: And with Brian Wu yesterday, man, he looked like a
28:37
Speaker 3: sad puppy yesterday. It does. I don't even know if
28:41
Speaker 3: he's even going to make the roster the way that
28:43
Speaker 3: they're kind of acting. He's acting about how his bullpen
28:47
Speaker 3: sessions went and how his pecks feeling. So this might
28:50
Speaker 3: end up being Wu not on the roster, and this
28:53
Speaker 3: might end up being a Gilbert or George one two
28:57
Speaker 3: punch here at home against the Tigers.
28:59
Speaker 4: Yeah curious. I mean, the more we get, the closer
29:03
Speaker 4: we get to it. I feel like it's logan that
29:04
Speaker 4: they're gonna go out there game one, and who knows,
29:07
Speaker 4: if if George ends up being two, that'll that would
29:10
Speaker 4: surprise me a little bit. But regard, I'll still be
29:13
Speaker 4: pumped about the whole thing, the whole Wu situation though. Yeah,
29:17
Speaker 4: you're right. I mean he threw yesterday or the day
29:19
Speaker 4: before yesterday, the day before they threw, regardless, and he
29:23
Speaker 4: just was like, yeah, you know, everything's going the way
29:25
Speaker 4: that we're wanting it. To go. I guess we'll find
29:29
Speaker 4: out in a week or so, Like you know, well
29:31
Speaker 4: that then you're basically saying maybe he could be ready
29:35
Speaker 4: for Game five. Well, we'll know what their actual thoughts
29:39
Speaker 4: are on him and when he could come back based
29:42
Speaker 4: on whether he is on the roster or not, because
29:44
Speaker 4: that you wouldn't be bringing him back for anything except
29:46
Speaker 4: for the last game of the series based on what
29:49
Speaker 4: he was saying yesterday. Now, I mean, I think that
29:52
Speaker 4: this is one of those you you want Brian Wu
29:55
Speaker 4: in the series obviously, but you want Brian Wu for
29:57
Speaker 4: his career and you want that to be as long
29:59
Speaker 4: as p possible. One thing this organization does just takes
30:02
Speaker 4: care of their pitcher's arms, and so they have a
30:05
Speaker 4: plan of how they're going about this and how they're
30:07
Speaker 4: wanting to work him back into where they think he's
30:09
Speaker 4: capable of going out and taking the ball in a game. Yeah,
30:13
Speaker 4: I would, if I had to bet, I would think
30:15
Speaker 4: you're probably not going to see him this series. That sucks.
30:18
Speaker 5: Also, though, wouldn't it be great if like they were like, Okay,
30:21
Speaker 5: we need you to go out there and act like
30:23
Speaker 5: you're really sad that you're not going to play we're
30:25
Speaker 5: going to surprise the crap out of everybody.
30:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be fun. I'm just saying it's not
30:30
Speaker 2: gonna happen, but it'd be really really fun.
30:36
Speaker 4: Game two started be like it's worked.
30:38
Speaker 5: It worked for the Ravens because they told everyone Lamar
30:40
Speaker 5: Jackson was going to be out for three to four
30:42
Speaker 5: weeks and now he might play Sunday.
30:44
Speaker 2: So we're going to do this for you and we're
30:45
Speaker 2: going to see how they react. Pack's fine, never all
30:49
Speaker 2: the big rus Uh.
30:50
Speaker 3: So, yes, we'll see later today. I think we're gonna
30:53
Speaker 3: get final. I think I'm sure we're going to find
30:56
Speaker 3: out today the starting pitching is going to be for
30:59
Speaker 3: Game number one, and Game number two will also probably
31:02
Speaker 3: find out the final roster decision. Another thing from Ryan
31:06
Speaker 3: was that maybe it's not going to be Harry Ford
31:08
Speaker 3: after all that maybe like a Samad Taylor, who had
31:11
Speaker 3: four at bats all season long for the Mariners, ends
31:15
Speaker 3: up with one of the roster spots before all is
31:17
Speaker 3: said and done.
31:18
Speaker 2: So we'll see.
31:19
Speaker 3: Those decisions should be announced a little bit later on today.
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Speaker 3: Coming up next, We've got no cliche keys to victory
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Speaker 3: use anything that's a cliche? Please, Let's stay away from that.
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Speaker 3: That's not analysis. Let's dig a little deeper, at least
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Speaker 3: one layer deeper into trying to figure out why the
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Speaker 3: Yawks will beat the Buccaneers Sunday. What do you got, bucket,
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Speaker 3: what's your no cliche key to vic.
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Speaker 4: Well, I'm gonna go exactly one layer deeper than no
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Speaker 4: cliches because it kind of is tied to not turn
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Speaker 4: the ball over. I feel like you are set up
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Speaker 4: right now with Bucky Irving probably not playing for them now,
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Speaker 4: and you have a good run defense to begin with.
32:21
Speaker 4: They're also missing one of their big targets in Evans
32:24
Speaker 4: due to health, and so you kind of I feel
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Speaker 4: like the defense against their offense is set up well
32:30
Speaker 4: their defense against our offense. We still haven't gotten the ball.
32:33
Speaker 4: We haven't been running the ball the way that they
32:35
Speaker 4: would like. It feels lopsided at times, the way that
32:39
Speaker 4: it goes down. To me, I feel like what you
32:41
Speaker 4: need to avoid is sacks and a bunch of pressure
32:44
Speaker 4: on Sam Darnold because that's when possibly you could turn
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32:52
Speaker 4: pocket getting him out, not don't let videvea blow up
32:56
Speaker 4: your your you know, maybe not as strong center in
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Speaker 4: Sundell and Bradford. That pressure up the middle. We know
33:03
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Speaker 4: and against everybody else in the NFL. Of how devastating
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Speaker 4: the middle, So to me, it's it's moved the pocket
33:16
Speaker 4: so that Sam Donald is not under a ton of pressure,
33:19
Speaker 4: because that's what I think would be the key to
33:22
Speaker 4: losing this game. If if that's the case, Well, the.
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Speaker 3: Buccaneers defense, I mean, I know that the big names,
33:27
Speaker 3: Mayfield and Evans and Godwin and even Abuca Now and
33:32
Speaker 3: Bucky Irving. I mean, you know the names on offense.
33:35
Speaker 3: You probably know more names on offense. But their defense
33:39
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33:41
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33:44
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33:48
Speaker 3: the strength, and they've got a defensive minded head coach,
33:51
Speaker 3: so they're gonna They're gonna bring a game plan, there's
33:54
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33:57
Speaker 3: in all phases. What do you got for your no cliche?
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Speaker 5: Actually, I think when we played the Saints, we had
34:02
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34:05
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34:08
Speaker 5: They had quite a few mistakes that almost cost them games.
34:12
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34:15
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34:18
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Speaker 2: They went down really early.
34:22
Speaker 5: But if you can take advantage of those mistakes and
34:24
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Speaker 3: An achilles heel. You're saying, oh yeah, a little deeper
34:34
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34:36
Speaker 3: find the Tampa Bay Buccaneers achilles heel.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, go crush it. Yeah, it's just put stump on it.
34:43
Speaker 3: Apparently you can just shoot an arrow. You can from
34:45
Speaker 3: the pressure through it, right through it, and then I'll
34:47
Speaker 3: just take them out. Yeah, all right, I'm going to
34:50
Speaker 3: go with and this is going to sound extraordinarily cliche,
34:54
Speaker 3: and so I will explain it a little bit. You
34:57
Speaker 3: got to execute your game plan. I mean, that's that's
34:59
Speaker 3: as it gets. But I don't think this is one
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Speaker 3: of those games where this is a I think this
35:05
Speaker 3: is the best opponent that you faced this year. And
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Speaker 3: so if you think you're gonna be able to go
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Speaker 3: out there and get shut down with the run and
35:11
Speaker 3: then Sam Darnold's gonna take over, I don't think that's
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Speaker 3: gonna happen. They can get pressure on the quarterback. They
35:17
Speaker 3: have ten sacks this year on top of all the
35:19
Speaker 3: other defensive statistics that I've outlined. If you think that
35:23
Speaker 3: you're gonna go out there and just run over the
35:25
Speaker 3: top of them, you're not gonna be able to do that.
35:28
Speaker 3: You better have some balance on offense. You better be
35:30
Speaker 3: able to set up the run, set up the pass,
35:33
Speaker 3: you know, by creating that balance, because they can pretty
35:39
Speaker 3: much beat you in any way on the defensive side
35:42
Speaker 3: of the ball. I don't think that they're a team
35:44
Speaker 3: against our defense that's gonna light up the scoreboard. But
35:47
Speaker 3: I do think you're gonna need more than twenty points
35:50
Speaker 3: in order to win this game. And the only way
35:52
Speaker 3: that you're going to achieve that is creating that balance
35:55
Speaker 3: with the run and the pass. And it probably does
35:57
Speaker 3: start with blocking Vida Veya. Don't let I mean he
36:00
Speaker 3: could beat you in the pass game. He could beat
36:02
Speaker 3: you in the run game. If he blows up the
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Speaker 3: offensive line, especially the interior of the offensive line, it
36:08
Speaker 3: could be a tough, tough day of putting points on
36:11
Speaker 3: the board. And so they're going to need to be efficient.
36:14
Speaker 3: I think they can't turn the ball over to Bucky's point,
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Speaker 3: and they're going to need to be able to be
36:21
Speaker 3: a balanced offense because I don't think if the if
36:25
Speaker 3: both aren't working, I don't think the one can overcompensate
36:29
Speaker 3: the opponent that you're facing this weekend. So I have
36:32
Speaker 3: faith in Sam Darnold, but I don't know if I
36:35
Speaker 3: have faith in our running attack going against the Tampa
36:38
Speaker 3: Bay Buccaneers. So really it's going to come down to
36:40
Speaker 3: to steal a Greg Bell key running that football, because
36:45
Speaker 3: that's the area where I'm most concerned about, and if
36:47
Speaker 3: you can't pull it off on Sunday, I think you're
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Speaker 3: going to lose to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. All Right,
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Speaker 3: Greg Bell will give us his key at seven oh
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